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| | Staffordshire Eyre, A.D. 1203 |
 | | The jurors say that in turth there was some quarrel between Robert's gardener, Osmund, and some foot-boys, but Ranulf was not there, and they do not suspect him of any robbery or any tort done to Robert or to Osmund. |
 | | Also the county records that the knights who on Robert's complaint were sent to view Osmund's wounds found him unwounded and found no one else complaining, and that Robert in his plaint spoke of Osmund his gardener and never of Roger, and that Roger never came to the county [court] to make this appeal. |
 | | Therefore it is considered that Ranulf be quit, and Robert and Roger in mercy. |
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